Report Summary

  • 20

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    37% of other websites

  • 81

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 51% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 77

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    36% of websites

reddevnews.com

Visual Studio Magazine Home -- Visual Studio Magazine

Page Load Speed

4.6 sec in total

First Response

168 ms

Resources Loaded

3.4 sec

Page Rendered

1.1 sec

About Website

Visit reddevnews.com now to see the best up-to-date Reddevnews content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about reddevnews.com

The home page of Visual Studio Magazine online, the leading site for enterprise .NET developers.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Reddevnews.com page load time and found that the first response time was 168 ms and then it took 4.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

reddevnews.com performance score

20

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.3 s

17/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value16.2 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.8 s

23/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,140 ms

2/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.057

98/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value14.8 s

8/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

Home.aspx

168 ms

gtm.js

63 ms

oc.min.js

217 ms

gpt.js

102 ms

olytics.css

29 ms

Our browser made a total of 102 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Reddevnews.com, 16% (16 requests) were made to 1105-validate.onecount.net and 10% (10 requests) were made to Tpc.googlesyndication.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.1 sec) relates to the external source 1105-validate.onecount.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 250.4 kB (8%)

Content Size

3.3 MB

After Optimization

3.1 MB

In fact, the total size of Reddevnews.com main page is 3.3 MB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 2.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 110.6 kB

  • Original 157.9 kB
  • After minification 138.6 kB
  • After compression 47.3 kB

HTML content can be minified and compressed by a website’s server. The most efficient way is to compress content using GZIP which reduces data amount travelling through the network between server and browser. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 19.3 kB, which is 12% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 110.6 kB or 70% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 61.9 kB

  • Original 2.7 MB
  • After minification 2.7 MB

Image size optimization can help to speed up a website loading time. The chart above shows the difference between the size before and after optimization. Reddevnews images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-18%

Potential reduce by 77.6 kB

  • Original 427.3 kB
  • After minification 427.3 kB
  • After compression 349.7 kB

It’s better to minify JavaScript in order to improve website performance. The diagram shows the current total size of all JavaScript files against the prospective JavaScript size after its minification and compression. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 77.6 kB or 18% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 256 B

  • Original 5.0 kB
  • After minification 5.0 kB
  • After compression 4.7 kB

CSS files minification is very important to reduce a web page rendering time. The faster CSS files can load, the earlier a page can be rendered. Reddevnews.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 54 (59%)

Requests Now

91

After Optimization

37

The browser has sent 91 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Reddevnews. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 35 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

reddevnews.com accessibility score

81

Accessibility Issues

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

[id] attributes on active, focusable elements are not unique

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Names and labels

These are opportunities to improve the semantics of the controls in your application. This may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

reddevnews.com best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

reddevnews.com SEO score

77

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Links do not have descriptive text

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

Mobile Friendly

Make sure your pages are mobile friendly so users don’t have to pinch or zoom in order to read the content pages. [Learn more](https://developers.google.com/search/mobile-sites/).

Impact

Issue

High

Document uses legible font sizes

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Reddevnews.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and it matches the claimed language. Our system also found out that Reddevnews.com main page’s claimed encoding is utf-8. Use of this encoding format is the best practice as the main page visitors from all over the world won’t have any issues with symbol transcription.

Social Sharing Optimization

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Reddevnews. Lack of Open Graph description can be counter-productive for their social media presence, as such a description allows converting a website homepage (or other pages) into good-looking, rich and well-structured posts, when it is being shared on Facebook and other social media. For example, adding the following code snippet into HTML <head> tag will help to represent this web page correctly in social networks: